Donkey Kong
Sep. 11th, 2021 10:12 pmSince I already burned through all the shortest games in my backlog, my new way of tricking myself into feeling like I'm making more of a dent than I am is to focus on knocking out entire consoles. AND WITH DONKEY KONG, I AM DONE WITH MY 3DS. Like, not forever obviously, but I have now beaten every single game I purchased for it. Catch me going absolutely apeshit buying new stuff around the holidays in a giftcard-fueled "the 3DS eShop will be closing sometime soon" frenzy but until then: I'M CAUGHT UP.
Donkey Kong! This was the 1994 Game Boy game, which basically takes the premise of the arcade game and expands it to a full-fledged platformer with about a hundred levels. No cut here because there's nothing worth cutting, but it was really good! The difficulty mix was great - there were enough easier levels that I racked up an absolute shitload of extra lives (I think I peaked at 61?) but enough harder ones that I always felt like I was only a couple of tough levels away from burning through all my lives and losing that safety net. It was a little frustrating in parts (visually I couldn't always tell what was and wasn't a boundary in water, it's from 1994 so it assumes you're learning the controls from a manual, etc etc) but overall just a really well-constructed platformer.
Also, Donkey Kong has a dump truck ass.
Donkey Kong! This was the 1994 Game Boy game, which basically takes the premise of the arcade game and expands it to a full-fledged platformer with about a hundred levels. No cut here because there's nothing worth cutting, but it was really good! The difficulty mix was great - there were enough easier levels that I racked up an absolute shitload of extra lives (I think I peaked at 61?) but enough harder ones that I always felt like I was only a couple of tough levels away from burning through all my lives and losing that safety net. It was a little frustrating in parts (visually I couldn't always tell what was and wasn't a boundary in water, it's from 1994 so it assumes you're learning the controls from a manual, etc etc) but overall just a really well-constructed platformer.
Also, Donkey Kong has a dump truck ass.
